I am obsessed with becoming a woman comfortable in her skin.

I always have to have sweet and salty. I know some of you are going to say, "Oh, I tried dates. I hate them." That's probably because you had the ones that were on the shelf for three years. Go to some healthy place and get the fresh ones, and you will just love them. You'll start eating them and think they're so good.

I remember when they started publishing Latino fiction years ago. You had to be really good to get published. Now you don't have to be that good.

San Antonio drives me crazy, but Chicago drives me crazy in a different way.

I can't stand it when people say, "If you're writing a novel, you should read this and that." Because it's like giving someone another person's prescription. How do you know that's what they need?

For example, there's no word emocionó in English, so I have to say, "You, you really emotioned me," It's more precise, even though it sounds odd. "My father emotioned me." Or "That performance really emotioned to me."

My idea of a meal, if I was hungry, was to open a bag of potato chips.